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OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the preemptive-boilerplate-yammering dept.

seldo writes "More news from Microsoft's latest quarterly filing: according to eWeek, Microsoft says it may have to lower its prices in response to competition from open-source software. From the filing: "To the extent the open source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the company's products may decline, the company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline". This is a fairly major revelation from Microsoft, and if it happens, it may be one of the biggest wins yet for open-source software: what do you know -- competition works!"

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  1. Yeah Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux was on the space shuttle, and look what happened to it! Linux proliferation will only cause more disasters. Fuck linux!

  2. why the gratuitious propaganda? by g4dget · · Score: -1, Troll
    At first, MS's main advantage was price, but gradually they innovated(*)

    Microsoft has not innovated once in their company's history: every single major product and major piece of functionality in their systems has been done by other companies and research labs before. Microsoft's usual MO is to either buy the competitor, or hire away the key developers from their competitors and create their own clone, which is then pushed out through their monopolistic distribution channels.

    Only recently has Microsoft even attempted to innovate themselves, by creating MSR. But, so far, that has born no significant fruits.

    (*)Rather than freaking out and writing posts about 'M$' and so on, why not go outside and get some fresh air?

    I don't think I'm "freaking out". But why do you put gratuitous and erroneous Microsoft propaganda into your posts?